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purposes and uses of sex. as wc shall
cover in detail later. Ood
ended
his
in·
struction ..: his teaching - of necessary
basic spiritual
and
physical knowledge.
as recorded in Oenesi.s 2:24:
'"Tbcrefore shall a man leave ltis
father and bis mother, and shall cleave
unto bis wife: and they sball be one
ftesb."
Then foUows verse
2S:
"And they
were both naked, the man and bu wífe,
and were not asbame<i"
NonCE CAllErullY! Ood had been
personally
witlr
Adam and Eve. The ·
three
bad
been
talking 10gether. Adam
and Eve were nake<i
Nothtng
in Ood's
instruetion regarding busband-a.nd-wife
relationship bad caused them to experi·
enee any sense of shame in regard lO
sex. In tbe privacy of this one married
couple, bound in marriage by the holy
Ood who was speaking witb them, there
was absolutely no sensc of shame in re–
gard tosex.
Now continue rigbt on, next verse!
See wbat now happened!
Remember, as original.ly inspired and
wriuen, the Bible was not divided in10
ebapters and verses. These were added
by uninspired meo mucb later, as a mat·
ter of convenience in bibUcal study. The
very next verse, eontinuing immediately.
is verse
1
ofcbapter
3:
~Now
thc serpeo! was more subtile
than any beast of the fteld whicb 1he
Lord Ood had made. And be said unto
1he woman. Yea, hatb Ood said, Ye
shaU not cal of every lree of lhe gar·
den?"
lmmediately Satan begins 10 diseredit
revelation as thc fountain souree of
knowledge- that i.s, Ood's 1eaclting. He
subtly and craftily irnpUes,
"l..ook!
Ood
knows better than that! Ood was mis·
representing!"
Ood had told Adam and Eve that the
wages of sin is
DEATH -
for etetnity -
BT'UNAL
punishment! Ood told them
they were woaT.u. and could OlB! Salan
uuered the.fint recorded líe ofhislory:
:'Ye sball not SIJll.ELYdie!"
ln other words, "Wby, Ood was de–
ceivingyou. He kn.ew you are tM:MOaTAJ.
SOlll.S!"
Sara.n lmplantsSense
Of
Shame
The Oenesis accounl is exoeedingly
brief and condensed. lt merely
summa–
rius,
in fewesl words, these conversa–
tions and events. We leam mucb from
later passages and from history. ·
Filling in the omitted
gaps
and de–
tails,
what Saran
said
becomes clear.
As
soon as Satan got
in
his
lying. deeeptive
ralk. and the woman had obeyed him,
eating tbe forbidden fruit, and her bus–
band deliberalely bad caten it wíth her,
!he next verses
teU
us thís:
u
And the eyes of them both were
opened, and
they knew tlrat they
wt~re
naktd;
and they sewed 6g leaves lo·
ge1her, and made tbemselves aprons"
(verse 7).
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Now continue, next verse:
'"And they beard the voice or thc Lord
Ood walking in the garden in the cool of
the' day: and Adam. and
his
wife hid
thernselves from the presence or the.
Lord God among the trees of the gar–
den. And the Lord Ood called unto
Adam. and said unto him, WHEIU!
AAT'
mou? And he said. 1 beard thy voice in
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the garden, and 1 WAS AFRAIO, BECAIJSB
1
WAS ]'IAKED; and
1
bid myselr' (ver–
ses
8-10).
Nolice· Ood's answer! "Wuo TOt.D
THI!E THAT THO.t/ WAST NAICBO?"
(Verse
1L)
Ves,
WHO
put the sense <?f sbame
about
sex
in the minds of Adam and
Eve?
11
was SATAN who had been ' telling
them things!
. OOD DION'T!
All
the time
Glxl
had been talking 10
them. instructing them in uuc and nght
knowledge, they were
nak~.
But NOTH·
tNG in aU that God taughl them gave
them any sense of sbame loward sex.
This idea thal sex
is
evil CAMB
F~OW
SATAN.
11
was
an aocusation agains1
Ooo - an auempt t'o make whal Ood
designed appea'r 10 be contaminaled
and degrading. 1t was inextricably tied
up with the false "irnmortal soul" lie!
Wby
God
Covered Them
Bul absolutely
nothíng
in
whal you
have just read justifies nudism. or nudist
colonies. That is not the lcacbingofOod
at aU! Ratber, Ood bimself
clothed
Adam and Eve.
L<:'l's
now leam bow -
under what circumstances. and WHY!
When Ood bad talked wilb Adam
and Eve, immediately following their
vcry crealion, he was instructing them in
a situation of busband- and-wife privacy.
As
long
~
they were
the only
humans,
alone· by themselves (so far as any olher
humans are conperned), Ood gavc lhem
no in.struction to cover their
bodles.
Ood is
everywhere'
present at alltimes
-
omnipresent!
Wben a husband and
wife, today, are
alone
in the privacy of
their own bedroom, Ood is invisibly
present!
•
But. wben their cbildren and other
people- the PUBÚC -
"AU
UVING" –
are inlroduoed,
tiren,
we read that Ooo
RJWSELF
c/othed
Adam and Eve. Notice
it!
lt
appeass
la
ter, in the same chapler:
"And Adam called his wífe's name
Eve; because she was the motber of ALL
LIVING
(ber
chiJdreo - their family -
the pubUc). Unto Adam also and 10 his
wífe did the Lord Ood' make coa1s of
skins, and clothed them" (Gen.
3:20·21 ).
bashed
them - adomed, clothed lhem.
Of course this clotbing
did
cover na,
kedness. The differenee between the 1wo
Hebrew words,
labash
and
kasah,
is one
of put¡l<l$C and intent, ralher than the
fact
of being covered. Bolh do onver nu–
dity. But the Hebrew
kasah
carries lhe
conootation of
concrafing
or
hlding
something wlúcb migbt be shameful,
while
labash
includes no such meanin&
and irnpUes
adding
attractiveness rather
thao
hiding
sbamefulness. In other
words, although God's clotbing did
cover their bodies, it oto NOT irnply any
sense
ofshame.in wbatOod designed.
This
does not
mean,
under any cir·
cumslanees, that Ood would approve
public nudity. NOT AT ALL. Ood
CLOTHED man! God inlended man to
The idea that sex is evil
carne from Satan. lt
was an accusation
against God
-
an
attempt
to
make what
God designed appear
to
be
contaminated. lt was
inextiicably tied up
with
the "immortal sotil" líe.
Kll6P CLOTHED! Qod inlended tbal we
N'EVER exposé or exhibit the pubic re-
• gion of our bodies except in the privacy
ofmarriage - but THE REASON is
not
be·
cause the pubic region which Goo de·
signed and made is degrading or evil,
but
rath~r.
as a 'mauer of proper mod·
esty and decorum!
Notice . the expression: "The Lord
Ood ... clothed them.» 'Tbe H.ebrew
word Ood inspired Mases to wrile here
for
"clorhed"
is
labash.
lt
does
not
mean
10 cover shamefulness - to ltide naked· ,
oess- or any sueb meaning_
The Hebrew word meaning to
etJnctol
oakedness is
kasah.
But the word Moses
was inspired 10 write,
labosh,
means,
talber, the donrtin& of apparel, raimenL
lt
refers 10
ourer
garrnents rather t6an lo
underclothing_ lt impUes the idea of
adorning, decorating, or displaying,
rather than concealing, covering over, or
hiding.
lt
is
a mauer of propriety - of cour–
tesy to others - tbat we take
care
of
cer–
tain eUminative functions
privattly.
This
does not imply there is sin or evil in go–
ing to the toiler. l t is a mauer of eti–
queue - consideration for others -
rather than to cover up somelhing
WRONG. In the same manner, Ood wills
that we wéar clothes - lhat we
do nl>t
expose
lhe sex region of the body
~
as
a
malter of deconim and propriety and to
avoid temptation that could lead 10 sin–
fUI
wrong
use, but NOT because the sex
organs whicb Ood designed are them·
selvesevil.
Ootlliag
Necessuy
There are two additional reasons.
In lbe inciden! of Noah's drunk–
enness, be apparenUy had been violated
by Canaan, son of Ham. Shem and
Japheth, also sons of Noah.
backed up
wíth a garrnent on their sboulde.rs, and
"covered the nakedness" of their father
(Oen.esis 9:23). They were hiding, con·
oealing. the result of a sinful acr.. Here
lhe Hebrew word for "covered" i.s
/c(JJ(Jh.
So
notice, Ood did NOT
kasah
Adam
and Eve - djd
MI
bide shamefulness,
conoeal nakedness - but rather be
la-
God designed sex for
u.se
only be·
twcen a busband and wífe wbom Ood
has joined in boly wedlock. He designed
sex for righteous
uses -
and one of them
is 10 bind busband and wífe togetbcr in
a
loving
relationship unshared with any
other. The very
privacy
of
this
marriage
relationship makes it sacred, makes hus–
band and wife
dear
10 each o ther in
a
specla/
way never shared wíth another in
adultery. This entire loving, sacred, pre–
cious relationsbip i.s greatly irnpaired,
or
destroyed,
wheo shared wíth any otber.
That
is
why fornication and adultery are
so barmful 10 their participanll, and
therefore CAPITAL SIN
S.
Tbe secood additiooal reason for
avoiding indecent or lewd exposure
is
that undue exposure of the female body
is automatieally lust-arousing 10 lhe car–
nal maJe mind. Bur}esque and girlíe
shows, strip-lease acts, and all such exhi–
bitions are deliberately intended to at–
tract male admissions for profit, lhrough
lusl.
Nevertheless, !bese passages in Oen–
esi.s sbow positively tbat tbe origin of tbe
concept that sex i.s evil and shameful
originated wítb SATAN - and not from
Ood!
.
The pagan world aocepted thi.s he.
As
a teacbing. or doctrine, it became a uni–
versally aceepted dogma. This fable was
popularized by the Oreek plulosopber
Plato, founder of lhe curricular system
oC
education. Plato
wrote
il in bis book
Tht Phaedo.
"Sbame"Tied to
"lmmortal Soul"
Ue
lt
wa.t
from
thís •ymmorta/ soul" doc·
tr[ne that .the concept ofsex
IU
evi/ ín lr–
stlf1temmed.
Notice how
it
developed!
Thi.s "immortal soul" doctrine teaches
that manis DUAL Wbile it claims falsely
that the
~immortal
souJ» is the real man
and ¡he body is merely the pnson in
whicb be is held. yet ilteacbes tnconsist–
ently that
man
i.s DUAl. - both soul and
body.
Thus, the real WAN is represented
as
being
spiritual,
pure, good. righteous, al·
ready having immortaUty.
h
represents
lhe body - the FLESH -
as
being essen·
tially evil, fillhy. nMty. Sex organs and
sex func1ioning are physícal - of the
aoov - ánd tberefore fteshly, sensunl,
and evil.
Thus, Satan has irnplanted the con–
ccpt that wbat Qbo designed and cre–
aled is evil, wbile man is righteous.
Remember Satan is a
spírit person
-
the former archangel, the cberub Lucifer
- wíth no pbysical body,
oo
sex or
power of reproducing birnself. Therefore
he is envious of these aunbutes be–
stowed on man. He lries to discredit
them and represen! tbem as evil - yet
also to glorify them as objects of lusl.
Satan is the real author of prudish dual–
ism. He also goes to the opposite
ex–
treme loday. He also is the real autltor
'of the so-called new morality which is in
faCI gross !Mmorality. In this extreme,
Satan deceives people into accepting sex
asan
1001.
of lust.
In both e>rtremes, be deceives human–
ity into
EVILS
by which be seeks lO
DE•
ST''ROY the human race!
This
salanic
doctrine of duali.sm
is
the
very antithesis ofOod's r,evelation of the
true FACTS.
lt
ÍS
a diaboUcal UE!
Ood forrned
MAN
of the dust
df
the
ground.
MAN
is
FLESH -
mauer. And
Ood beheld everything that he had
made, aod, bebold, IT WAS
VERY
GOOD!
lt
is wbat man thinks and
dtXS
that
is
sinful. But Satan blasphemes the
Holy Ooo by saying that wbat
God
made
was very filthy, nasty, evil, and sin·
fui.
This
is
tbe satanic dualism injectcd
into the original Babylonian religion of
Semiramis, wife of-Nimrod (Gen.
10).
lt
spread into the pagan religions and iniO
Egypt. From tbere it Ilowed inlo ancient
Oreece and theo the Roman world. We
bave already covered its injection in10
post-apostolicCbfistianity.
(To Be Continued Ntxtlsrue)
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